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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1920
University Daily Kansan
Official Student Paper of
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
Editor-in-Chief
Richard DeWitt
Editor/Assistant
Jack Mathrens
Joseph McDonnell
Sunny Editor
Alan Day
Ives Fitzgerald
News Editor
News Editor
Anuunit Fitzgerald
Elaine Watson
Elaina Lawrence
Plank Table Editor
John P. Fragher
Plank Table Editor
Jon P. Fragher
Telegraph editor
Ben Fletcher
Ben Fletcher
George Carrots
Michael Scholls
C. F. Rutherford
Robert L. Tawney
Robert L. Tanney
Frankey M. Welch
Rosell Hines
Russell Hines
Ruth Lawson
Elizabeth Southern
Editorial Department K, U, 25
Business Business K, U, 66
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CHEER UP!
Well, they put it off all someone but it's here at last, a sort of combination case of smallpox, seven-year pusse under the unaids of quix work.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1920
Our very best statisticians have estimated that 2,548,695 gallons of midnight oil will be consumed during the next two weeks, that there will be 538 nervous breakdowns and 34 suicides.
Professors are barricaking their homes and importing professional gunmen against any possible mob action that may arise from funds based largely on footnotes and appendices of obsolete books used an collateral reading.
It is truly a time of great meditation and speculation and one frugality with no mean possibilities of dive disaster; but don't worry, children dear Behind the clouds the sun's still shining, Santa Claus is safe home at Ice Cape and all's well with the world
Working no doubt on the theory that roostition calls attention, the hitherto conservative Kansas City Star blossoms out with the same story on pages two and three. What would Starebeans say if this had happened in the Kansas?
RULES DO NOT LAST
The date rule is criticized because it is not obeyed. Yet its supporters maintain that affairs would be much worse if there were no such rule, and declare that students do not possess the ability to regulate this phase of their collegiate life. They call for a re- codification of the regulations, and its placement upon a workable basis. The workable basis, however, is not explained, and the average student has a firm conviction that no rule will work.
Students should work toward the building of a sense of honor on the camps. Even if it were weak and inadequate at first, the final results would be tremendously worth while. When one leaves school he takes with him the code of ethics inspired by his own sense of honor, but the course of conduct imposed upon him by a rule is left behind with the rule.
Perhaps the present date rule could be amended and revived so that it would work in better fashion. Even if it did work better, there comes the question, what of the men and women after graduation? After the student leaves school the ban is immediately lifted, and as long as it has been a mere rule governing the students relations with the other sex, there will be a bad effect, leading to more or less serious consequences.
The future should be considered.
An honor system should be developed by which the students would determine their own course of action. It is a high ideal to strive for, and possibly a one far off, but it is worthy for it is the only way that a lasting benefit can be secured from college social training.
We know how to sympathize with "Dacat Slim," who got into trouble with the Kansas City police for writting nonsense algebraic equations on people's doors. He isn't the only person who ever got hauled up on the carpet because his algebra didn't make sense.
HOORAH FOR HARVARD!
**SUGH FOR HARVARD!**
From Cambridge, Mass., comes word that Harvard is to inaugurate a new era in its annals of collegehum. Seniors are to be granted voluntary leave from college until the next semester. To many this announcement means nothing; to others it is significant.
Its real significance lies in the fact that another great school has gained the tenacity to progress another step in evolving the ideal educational system. To be sure, it is looked upon as an experiment, even Harvard regard it, as such progress is ever the result of experiment. But if the experiment works, the administration declares, the same privilege will be granted to juniors and sophomores. For freshmen they do not believe it will ever be advisable.
Recently there has been much dissatisfaction on the part of the many critics of the present college system because of the alleged commercialization of the educational institutions. They claim that the sole aim of the college is mass production, the turning out of "educated students" in the same manner that Ford turns out "hearsay". Further, they claim that the colleges are overrun with students who have no real interest in learning or study, but instead are content to learn their way to an A, B, degree. Harvard admits that the new practice is to make a "school only for students" who desire an education themselves."
Why isn't such an "experiment" feasible at the University of Kansas? Of course, it would necessitate some adjustments of the classroom system, but it seems it could be worked out in connection with the plan advocated in the noted Dartmouth Report for the revision of the lecture method of instruction. By the time a student resumes to classification of a senior, he should be able to weigh the value of a classroom lecture and conduct himself accordingly.
The plan has three primary advantage; first, that it would indicate to professors the value a student places upon their ability to make a lecture interesting and worthwhile; second that the teacher would have more time for personal conferences with the students; third, that the student would have an opportunity to test his own responsibility in pursuing his study.
For some students routine this week consists of reading five minutes here and five there, wondering what its all about, and finally convinced that "The man on the Box" spake French and became a groom because he loved animals.
THE OWL'S DUPLICITY
The gullibility of University women was conspicuously revealed this morning when the "Lucky Number" of the Sour Owl came out with a list of women who had voted in the most popularity contest, and under their names, their various choices.
That the gallant Owls took advantage of the naive trustfulness of the women is undeniable, for in spite of repeated assurances that their votes would be strictly confidential, the numbers on the ballots were checked back and the votes made public.
But despite the duplicity of the Owls, and the ignominious method they chose to furnish the Hill with amusement, the revelation is an unhappy reflection on the women of the institution. In the first place, popularity contents are cheap, unjustified ways of seeking publicity and do not warrant the support of University women. In the second place, a bit of reflection should have suggested that the innocent looking numbers or the corners of the ballots were not without significance.
But the Hill has had its languish, and the gullible women have no other alternative than to pretend to be "good sports."
The state's nerviest editor has just come to light. R. T. Lemons, of the Logan Republician, after his wife had returned from a two months' visit, published a story praising the food served at the home town's restaurant.
The World Court Conference as Seen by the K. U. Delegate
The child and great hope of the Pentecost conference is the National Pentecost Conference, the federation is one that tempts the optimistic person to idealize, for it the optimistic person to idealize.
This is the third and concluding guide for Flood Simulation, University delegate to the Annual
Interdisciplinary World Congress Conference at Dijon, France.
How stirring, for example, it is to vision the students of a university, say this one, discussing, debating, arguing on a current international problem. Among the most active participants is a student from Harvard, because he is an American student, sent to the University by means of a federation scholarship. At another time imagine the student counsel, after an investigation of its own, forming with the council of hundreds of other schools a move toward a more systematic system in place of the present and concludes and artificial one.
Can you go so far as to imagine the University stirred up over the selection of three or four delegates to attend the annual conference of the college? You can meet the students of the United States on the consolidation of the railway systems of the country? To draw such pictures is to be a Utopian dreamer, you may. Yet such pictures are actualities and the ambitions plans of the federation.
Practical difficulties are as easy to see, however, as visions in the federation idea. First of all, undoubtedly
Editorials From Other Hills
A National Benefactor
We should like to see the University of Illinois without further ado grant "Red" Grange his bachelor's degree, if that is what he is studying for, or even the honorary degree of L.L.D. or higher for what he is doing for better education himself. A lot of nonense is going the rounds about his "desertion" of college, his "sacrifice of a well-rounded education for immediate money rewards," his "deliberation of football" by turning professional. He couldn't have done it on his own. We want to educate a better turn than by this same "desertion" at the peak of his popularity and advertising value. For "Red" Grange is switching the popular interest in football to the professional game, and this, we need to use the one salvation of the interprofessional game and of academic sanity.
College presidents and faculties have been racking their brains for a generation for some means of saving their institutions from complete engagement in the football tide. Very recently undergraduate representation was down to town, Conn., and made certain wise recommendations regarding intercollegiate football schedules and practices, to the same end. But what chance has the wishes of faculties or even of undergrads against the greater numbers, the greater wealth and greater variety of the alumni? It is the result of present concentration on intercollegiate Football to meet the popular demand. And the only thing that can defend them is a defection of that demand. This "Red" Grange, more than any other one person or factor, seems to be bringing about. Let us hope there are more students in other words. In other words, the ex-iceman is apparently solving the problem over which half the savages of the country have been stewing. I'mn't this worth a degree, or must the poor boy be
the ground upon which this vision of student influence and life is to be sown, namely the individual college experience. It is weeded-choked. Student interest in national, international and even their own curricular problems is at a low ebon on our campuses. If the federation to be filled with the breath of life such interest must be developed, it should not be focused on interest is Herculian. It is practically negligible to begin with; the classroom experience helps but little in furthering it; American life, entered in student life, does not call for it, since we live comfortably and unintrusive in Russians and Germans.
The officers of the federation are probably experienced enough in campus life not to expect more than a ten per cent fulfillment of their inspiring agenda within the first year of the federation's history. The title of leader is based on his role in the basis of the organization the students of the nation. It is much less likely to be an empty hank of an organization this way than if the emphasis was laid on the formal membership of schools. There are perhaps enough individual students on the federation that the interested inums of the federation to back its efforts for national co-operation.
Turning the Rascals Out
President R. M. Hulges of Miami University says quite truthfully that there are too many people in college, and urges the legislature to limit the number of high school grads who enroll in supported colleges and universities.
Snooner or later action is bound to come. The universities are already swamped by the tide of ambitions but dumb high school graduates that have obtained their diplomas in the state-supported universities are becoming factories for converting medicine raw material into medicine and giving a diploma to open the world's oyster.
Graduates must be turned out in great numbers. So they are pressed into their little moulds by the machine, and polished a bit on the surface. They are stammed with the trade of the factory, and the job is done.
But it is only the form that be changed, and not the substances. Students leave here believing sinfully the same things they did when in school. They are leaving to do with college and a college education are meted out of them.
"Silly Rabbitts to Keep Them Heads," says a headline. Seems entirely possible as long as there are only four hunters to every rabbit.
The director of the health department at the Ohio State University says that trutinity houses are the best places in which to contract colds.
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--has received since he began writing verse. The judges of the Poetry Society of America's undergraduate contest, Sarn Taesedale, George Sterling and the donor, unmannedly vowed the Bynner prize of $150 to Cuilen.
A women's pep club was recently organized at Kansas State Agricultural College. The organization will be similar to the "Wampus Cats" of the same school and will wear uniforms of sleeveless purple jackets with white skirts and blouses at athletic events.
The honor system in the present semester's final examinations will be given a trial by the seniors of the College of Arts and Sciences, at the University of Arizona.
Following action of the university enbinder for the enforcement of university parking rules at Ohio State, officers had given 300 white slips to motorists not possessing official markings in a half-day, recently. It was indicated that the gravity of each offense would determine the penalty.
Spelling contests are helping held with great enthusiasm at the University of Oklahoma.
The Illinois University Glee Club appeared in twelve cities and traveled more than a thousand miles on a Christmas vacation tour.
Book Notes
The Charleston, as an aid in preventing fallen arches and flat feet, is being taught the Oklahoma Agricultural College basketball team by their coach. He uses it daily in their setting up exercises.
"The Autobiography of Richam Baxter" will be published by E. I Dutton & Co. this month in the first chirurgian ever made of the "Re Baxter." In 1953 Richard Baxter was an Episcopal clergyman of the seventeenth century, a witness of his age to ours. He was a chaplain in Cromwell's army, knew the great battles with Charles I and Charles II and was present at some of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War of his time. The work has been edited from the 1906 edition by John Thomas, who formulates also an introduction, appendices and notes.
Counterte, Cullen, the 22-year-old poet of Harlem, has added the Witter Binyer undergraduate poetry prize for 1925 to the many awards he
The Duttons announce a new volume in their Broadway Transitions Series, the "Autobiography of Guiert de Nogent," the twelfth century writer who was Abbott of Nogent-SausGeeny. Originally written in French, it is presented for the first time to the English-reading public.
"Rebecca of SammyBrown Farm," by Roberta D. Kangas Wiggin, is now issued in the Houghton Mifflin Riveride Bookchelf *Ori Boyes and Girls, Illus* Groes, *Groes*. More than 835,000 copies of this story have been sold in all editions.
Students in physics will be $^{9}$interested to know that E. P. Darton & Co. are publishing Maurice de Broglie's book on "X-Rays", which has been published by Charles Clarke, assistant lecturer in physics, University of Sheffield. The work is an amplification of M. de Broglie's series of lectures on that subject, and is intended for the use of those who are not specialized in this branch of science.
St. John Irvine of London is said to have discovered an early seventeenth century manuscript containing new information about Shakespeare which seems to establish as false the authority he wrote the famous plays but they were written by another man who called himself Shakespeare."
Mes, Inez G. Howard, formerly of Junction City, Kim., now of Los Angeles, is the author of "The Chrysalis" (Chrysalis Press, New York and Los Angeles). It is a volume of whimsical romances written to amuse and to touch. It is handsomely printed in two volumes.
An "Anthology of Ancient Egyptian Poems," edited by C. Elisar Sharpley, is announced by E. P. Dutton & Co., for publication in January. It will be a new volume in the Dutton Wisdom of the East Series.
Suiting You—That's My Business
Plain Tales From the Hill
SCHULZ THE TAILOR
917 MASS. ST.
"Do you believe in the effectiveness of the date at the University of Kannas," a young co-ed was asked "other day."
"I never commit myself in matters about which I know nothing," was her answer. "Ask me another one."
A professor has described the class struggle of his pupils as "the rush for the door when the whistle blows."
A visitor on the Hill was watching the practice of the girl's rife队, "What's the idea?" he asked a student. "Teaching them to shoot?" "Aw, they're so darn anxious to do everything the men do that we're teaching them to shoot so they can fight the next way."
The top floor of the Oklahoma union building at the University of Oklahoma, for which tentative plans have been drawn, will have 28 bed rooms with private baths. In planning the hotel facilities, the officials had in mind the crowded conditions during busy seasons.
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There Will Be A Regular Varsity Dance Saturday Night--Jan. 16 FAU
Isenhart-Jenks Singing Orchestra
. First engagement in Lawrence after returning from a two weeks' trip through Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma